Maks Dannecker sets about brightening the recognizable visual space. An undertaking that continues to be astonishingly difficult. After all, the eye and the instinct always search for something that they know, that they can explain and classify, even in the most incomprehensible schema, even in the most graphic chiaroscuro. Here, though, precisely this secure feeling of ease is withdrawn. Though spaces continue to be discernible, as a result of reduction, concentration, as a result of the distorting game of montage they increasingly draw back from reality, even when one is all too willing to take them as such. Are they a construct, are they a castle in the air? Charade? Well, one thing is certain, they stay with you a while, under the surface, but all the more lasting for that: whatever their allusion meant to us…